On Feb 27, 2011, at 12:02 , John Sessoms wrote: > From: Charles Robinson > >> On Feb 25, 2011, at 9:57, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >>>> Right Charles, CBD is Central Business District. Think >>>> Minneapolis's downtown, but without quite as many tall buildings, >>>> and none of the 2nd story ramps from building to building to >>>> avoid the snowy streets (no -20 degree F temps either). >> >> (ahem) we call those "Skyways", thenkyewberrymush. Invented in >> Minneapolis, emulated everywhere it's cold. > > Really? I first encountered them in San Diego, CA back in 1964. > > I wonder, does anyone know off the top of their head how much snow > accumulates there in the winter, or how many -20 degree F days they get?
Seems they got some snow Saturday night, John. Seen it on the TV this morning! The actual need to build "Skyways" is about the time the 10th employee gets run down crossing the street - in any weather! :-) Joseph McAllister [email protected] The Big Bang was silent, and invisible in it's beginning moments. — from the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
